Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Warner Robins, GA MSA · October 2026
Every advertised-pay, job-posting and industry figure in this briefing comes from WageScape's own database of active job postings. The sources below back the external facts cited in the written analysis.
Sources cited in this report
Key Indicators
National unemployment at 4.2% with wage growth at 3.0% in September
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National employment situation report, September 2026
Local Economic Conditions
Houston County unemployment rate at 2.9% in July 2026
Georgia Department of Labor — County-level labor force and unemployment data
Warner Robins MSA government employment down 7.3% YoY in Q1 2026
Georgia Department of Labor Explorer — Quarterly industry employment data by metro area
Warner Robins MSA weekly wages rose 4.3%, led by financial services
Georgia Department of Labor Explorer — Quarterly wage data by industry sector
Looking Ahead
Georgia federal government employment down 9,400 jobs year-over-year
Georgia Department of Labor — State sector-level annual employment comparison
National financial activities employment down 129,000 since May 2025 peak
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National sector employment trend data
How the numbers are calculated
- Advertised pay is the median of the pay ranges employers publish in active job postings in this metro. It is not survey or payroll data.
- Percent changes compare the latest six full months with the six months before that, for the same metro and sector.
- Sectors group postings by the employer's industry (NAICS) classification into ten sectors. Where a metro has too few postings in a sector, the state figure is used instead.
- Role pay trends use the same comparison windows. "Stable" means a change of less than 3%; "moderate" 3–10%; "significant" more than 10%.
Official data for comparison